Trench Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was opened on the 2nd November 1823. It measured 39 ft x 30 ft in size and cost £350. The chapel closed in 1948 due to a decline in the membership.
Ordnance Survey maps show a Wesleyan chapel just east of the junction of Trench Road with Furnace lane (Wellington Road, Donnington, TF2 8AB). Street View in 2019 shows Reviive Furniture on the site.
You can read more about the chapel on Janice Cox’s Shropshire’s No-Conformist chapels website here.
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WESLEYAN METHODIST MAGAZINE, 1824 pages 45-6.
“TRENCH, in the Wellington (Shropshire) Circuit. A new chapel, thirty-nine feet by thirty, was opened here, Nov. 2d. [1823] By private subscriptions, £150 have been obtained; and £40 was collected at the Opening-Services, when Sermons were preached by the REV. JAMES GILL, and the REV. JOHN CHETTLE. The entire cost will be above £350. The pews are nearly all taken.”
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WELLINGTON JOURNAL, 11 May 1889, page 1.
“WESLEYAN CHAPEL, TRENCH.
THE ORGAN recently erected in the above Chapel will be OPENED TO-MORROW, when TWO SERMONS will be Preached Morning and Evening by JOSEPH WARD, Esq., of Altringham. In the Afternoon, a SERVICE OF SACRED SONG will be given by the Children and Choir. Collections will be made on behalf of the Organ Fund … .”
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